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Auction Report
Auction Date
September 30, 2025 - October 01, 2025
Page Size: 277 items in 12 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ARISTOTELE (384-322 a.C.)

[UNIVERSITA DI PARIGI] - De natura, aut de rerum principiis

Parigi 1567 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 5,120.00
2 ORAZIO FLACCO, Quinto (65-8 a.C.)

[UNIVERSITA] - Poemata omnia...

Friburgo 1549 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 512.00
3 FLORI, Ludovico (1579-1647)

[ECONOMIA] - Trattato del modo di tenere il libro doppio domestico...

Palermo 1636 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,048.00
4 DIODATI, Luigi (1763-1832)

[ECONOMIA] - Dello stato presente della moneta nel Regno di Napoli e della necessita di un alzamento

Napoli 1790 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,536.00
5 FERRARI, Giovanni Battista (1584-1655)

De florum cultura libri IV

Roma 1633 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 7,680.00
6 FERRARIO, Giulio (1767-1847)

Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni provata coi monumenti dell'antichita e rappresentata cogli analoghi disegni

Milano 1815 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
7 CAPIS, Giovanni (ca. 1550-1610)

Varon Milanes de la lengua de Milan, e Prissian de Milan de la parnonzia milanesa

Milano 1606 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,920.00
8 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915)

A Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise

[Londra] 1873 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,800.00
9 ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915)

The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America

New York [1866]-1869 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
10 DALI, Salvador (1904-1989)

Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis

Milano 1967 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,760.00
11 DALI, Salvador (1904-1989)

William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) - Romeo e Giulietta

Milano 1975 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,760.00
12 DALI, Salvador (1904-1989)

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) - La Divina Commedia

Verona 1963-1964 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,176.00
13 DE PISIS, Filippo (1896-1956)

Gaio Valerio CATULLO (84 a.C-54 a.C.) - I Carmi di Catullo scelti e nuovamente tradotti in versi da Vincenzo Errante e decorati con litografie da Filippo De Pisis

Milano 1945 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
14 BOETTI, Alighiero (1940-1994)

Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world

Ascoli Piceno 1977 EUR 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 20,480.00
15 MANZONI, Alessandro (1785-1873)

I Promessi Sposi Storia milanese del secolo XVII

Milano 1825-26 EUR 2,800.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,760.00
16 FOSCOLO, Ugo (1778-1827)

Dei Sepolcri

Brescia 1807 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,816.00
17 MOLZA, Francesco Maria (1489-1544) - Benedetto, VARCHI (1503-1565) - Lodovico, DOLCE (1508-1568)

Terze rime del Molza, del Varchi, del Dolce et d'altri

[Venezia] 1539 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,328.00
18 RIBERA, Francisco de (1537-1591)

La vida de la madre Teresa de Iesus fundadora de las Descalcas, y Descalcos Carmelitas

Madrid 1602 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,792.00
19 SCALA, Giuseppe (1556-1585) - Giuseppe MOLETO (1531-1588)

[ASTRONOMIA - ASTROLOGIA] - Ephemerides.. ad annos duodecim, incipientes ab Anno Domini 1589

Venezia 1589 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,024.00
20

[ALCHIMIA - COSMESI - MANOSCRITTO] - Affascinante manoscritto di alchimia e cosmesi redatto da piu mani

1478 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,864.00
21

[FONDERIA - CATALOGO - BRASSFOUNDER CATALOGUE] - Catalogo commerciale di una fonderia inglese di ferro e ottone

EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 768.00
22 EARHART, Amelia (1897-1937)

Amelia Earhart fu una pioniera dell'aviazione americana

EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 960.00
23 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961)

Autografo del celebre Premio Nobel, con firma e dedica sotto la riproduzione di uno dei suoi ritratti piu celebri

1934 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,792.00
24 ARCHIMEDE (287-212 a. C.)

Opera non nulla a Federico Commandino Urbinate nuper in Latinum conversa, et commentariis illustrata

Venezia 1558 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 15,360.00
25 SENECA, Lucio Anneo Seneca (4 a.C.- 65)

Moralis [Opera philosophica]

Venezia 1490 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,072.00
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.